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American Composer

Herbert Owen Reed

(born June 17, 1910 - died January 6, 2014 ) An American composer, conductor, and author. Reed taught at Michigan State University from 1939 to 1976, and since that year has served as professor emeritus. Many of Reed's students have gone on to fame as composers and arrangers; these include Loris Chobanian, Dinos Constantinides, Clare Fischer, David Gillingham, Adolphus Hailstork, Jere Hutcheson, David Maslanka, and Greg Steinke. Reed's best known and most widely performed work is the three-movement concert band composition La Fiesta Mexicana (1949), composed with the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship. The work is based on Aztec, Roman Catholic, mariachi, and other musics Reed heard while in Mexico City, Cuernavaca, and Chapala, Mexico for six months (1948-49). He returned to Mexico in 1960 for a month's further study. He has also studied folk music in the Caribbean in February 1976, and in Norway in the summer of 1977.MORE in Wikipedia Biography